東華大學圖書館 |

Language: English

Help

回圖書館首頁

手機版館藏查詢

Back

Switch To: Labeled | MARC Mode | ISBD

Find your Places, Please: Gender in ...

Machin, Denise M.

Linked to FindBook

Google Book

Amazon

博客來

Find your Places, Please: Gender in 21st Century U.S. Amateur Ballroom Dance Practices.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Find your Places, Please: Gender in 21st Century U.S. Amateur Ballroom Dance Practices./
Author:	Machin, Denise M.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2018,
Description:	248 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-03, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International80-03A.
Subject:	Dance. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10823728
ISBN:	9780438429833

Find your Places, Please: Gender in 21st Century U.S. Amateur Ballroom Dance Practices.
Machin, Denise M.

Find your Places, Please: Gender in 21st Century U.S. Amateur Ballroom Dance Practices. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2018 - 248 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-03, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Riverside, 2018.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This dissertation explores contemporary amateur ballroom dance practices in the U.S., paying special attention to the uses of gender. I focus on amateur ballroom dancers associated with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and queer communities to see the different ways gender in employed through ballroom dance. I argue that these communities both re-inscribed and challenge gender through different interpretations of ballroom dance. In chapter one, I situate the debate over how to define a couple on the dancefloor within the larger political landscape around the issue of marriage equality. This chapter also provides background information on gender studies and Mormon studies to argue that Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) and LGBTQIA ballroom dancers are using the performance of ballroom dance to promote their respective conceptions of partnerships and gender performance not only in dance, but also in general. Chapter two provides an in depth look into the history of dance in the LDS community before turning to ethnographic research on ballroom dance practices at Brigham Young University and Utah Valley University, arguing that the division of religious roles by gender in Mormonism is echoed in LDS practices of ballroom dance. Chapter three explains the specific aesthetic choices in partnering, costuming, and dance technique that are utilized by same-gender ballroom dancers to (re)define gender before teasing out the different visions for same-gender ballroom dance in the U.S. This chapter argues that despite the active attempts at inclusivity in this community, binary language and a fear of femininity still results in exclusionary practices. The fourth and final chapter examines the position of ballroom dance within the field of dance studies, arguing that histories of appropriation and assumptions about gender practices in ballroom dance contribute to its middlebrow status in dance studies. This middlebrow status is explored though ethnographic research at Pomona College, a school where the ballroom dance program is quite popular yet marginalized with relationship to Dance by being located in the Physical Education Department. Overall, this dissertation adds to the existing body of research on ballroom dance, problematizing the stereotype that ballroom is only heteronormative, through showing the ways ballroom dancers both uphold and challenged gender roles.

ISBN: 9780438429833Subjects--Topical Terms:

610547
Dance.

Find your Places, Please: Gender in 21st Century U.S. Amateur Ballroom Dance Practices.
LDR:03537nmm a2200337 4500 001 2209847
005 20191104074100.5
008 201008s2018 ||||||||||||||||| ||eng d
020 $a 9780438429833
035 $a (MiAaPQ)AAI10823728
035 $a (MiAaPQ)ucr:13322
035 $a AAI10823728
040 $a MiAaPQ $c MiAaPQ
100 1 $a Machin, Denise M. $3 3436965
245 1 0 $a Find your Places, Please: Gender in 21st Century U.S. Amateur Ballroom Dance Practices.
260 1 $a Ann Arbor : $b ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, $c 2018
300 $a 248 p.
500 $a Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-03, Section: A.
500 $a Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
500 $a Advisor: Kraut, Anthea.
502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Riverside, 2018.
506 $a This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.
520 $a This dissertation explores contemporary amateur ballroom dance practices in the U.S., paying special attention to the uses of gender. I focus on amateur ballroom dancers associated with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and queer communities to see the different ways gender in employed through ballroom dance. I argue that these communities both re-inscribed and challenge gender through different interpretations of ballroom dance. In chapter one, I situate the debate over how to define a couple on the dancefloor within the larger political landscape around the issue of marriage equality. This chapter also provides background information on gender studies and Mormon studies to argue that Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) and LGBTQIA ballroom dancers are using the performance of ballroom dance to promote their respective conceptions of partnerships and gender performance not only in dance, but also in general. Chapter two provides an in depth look into the history of dance in the LDS community before turning to ethnographic research on ballroom dance practices at Brigham Young University and Utah Valley University, arguing that the division of religious roles by gender in Mormonism is echoed in LDS practices of ballroom dance. Chapter three explains the specific aesthetic choices in partnering, costuming, and dance technique that are utilized by same-gender ballroom dancers to (re)define gender before teasing out the different visions for same-gender ballroom dance in the U.S. This chapter argues that despite the active attempts at inclusivity in this community, binary language and a fear of femininity still results in exclusionary practices. The fourth and final chapter examines the position of ballroom dance within the field of dance studies, arguing that histories of appropriation and assumptions about gender practices in ballroom dance contribute to its middlebrow status in dance studies. This middlebrow status is explored though ethnographic research at Pomona College, a school where the ballroom dance program is quite popular yet marginalized with relationship to Dance by being located in the Physical Education Department. Overall, this dissertation adds to the existing body of research on ballroom dance, problematizing the stereotype that ballroom is only heteronormative, through showing the ways ballroom dancers both uphold and challenged gender roles.
590 $a School code: 0032.
650 4 $a Dance. $3 610547
650 4 $a Gender studies. $3 2122708
650 4 $a Recreation. $3 535376
690 $a 0378
690 $a 0733
690 $a 0814
710 2 $a University of California, Riverside. $b Critical Dance Studies. $3 1672225
773 0 $t Dissertations Abstracts International $g 80-03A.
790 $a 0032
791 $a Ph.D.
792 $a 2018
793 $a English
856 4 0 $u http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10823728